Improved blacking-box and brush



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rBlaoking Box.

Patented Aug. 30", 1870.

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NJETENS. PHOTO-LITHDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

CHARLES E. YAGER. or HUDSON, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 106,909, dated August 30, 1870.

IMPROVED BLACKING-BOX AND BRUSH.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same 1, CHARLES E. YAGEB, of the city of Hudson, in the county of Columbia and State of New York, have invented animproved Gombination Box and Brushes for Blacking Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

This invention rala-tes to the convenient, compact, and economical constructioh and combination of a polishing-pad and blacking-tuft or dauber, with the blacking-box, so that when combined and not in use the blacking and the blacking-tuft are inclosed within the box, and the whole so secured as to be safely packed with white or other articles of clothing without any risk of soiling.

Description of the Accompmty-iny Drawing.

Figurel is a perspective view of the box and brushes combined, or as the whole appears when closed up ready to pack.

Figure 2 is a View of the back of the polishing-pad, with the dauber-or blacking-tuft at one end.

Figure 3. is an interior view of the blacking-box.

Like letters indicate like parts 011 the several figures.

is made of plush or other erect and stiff napped cloth,

in place of bristlcsor hair. This does not retain blacking sufficient to soil anything with which itcomes in contact. It is formed on the -top of cover 0, and is provided with a handle so as to he used as an or dinary polishing-brush. I

The box 13 may be made of any form suitable for the form of a brush, for which the cover of the box is used. I have adopted the elliptical as the most suit-able, convenient, and economical form for all purposes.

I contemplate using an oval or dishing bottom, resembling'the bowl of a spoon, for my blackiug-box, so thatthe blackingmay not have a square corner or edge in which to accumulate or remain around in the inside of the box where the box or blacki'ng-tuft cannot reach it. I therefore do not intend to confine myself to theexact form or construction, so far as relates to this square edge of the blanking-box herein representcd; The ditficulty of reaching the blacking put up in boxes having sides or rims at right angles to their bottoms is only best avoided by making themin from the blacking by the partition d.

Figures 2 and 3 represent the -.two-parts of my blackingapparatus detached and separate. They are combined for packing or when not-in use by means of a hook or clasp, c, atone end of the box, and a loop or ring, 0, at-tached'to the cover by an'elastio tie at the other end, and hooked over a pin or stud attached to box B.

Such being the construction of this apparatus, its use or operation is very evident.

The blackiug occupies the apartment B (see fig. 3) of the box. 7

The cover 0, fig. 2, being detached from the box, the tuft or brush b is employed to take up and apply the blacking in the ordinary way. As soon as this is done the polishing-pad or cushibn A is applied, rubbing the boot or shoe briskly, when a brilliant polish succeeds equal to any produced by a hair-brush, and in much less time.

What I claim as .my improvement in combined blacking-box and brush is The construction and combination of the box B, with its device for attaching the cover 0, brush or cushion A, and the interior arrangement, with sponge b, 850., as shown and described.

' GHARS. E. YAGER.

\Vitnesses:

SAMUEL EDWARDS, ALEX. S. ROWLEY. 

